This time, the desert. After the successful meeting for Young Researchers in Epileptology in Kiel last year, we would like to invite young and senior researchers in the field for the 2013 meeting, which will take place on December 14th, 2013 in Sde Boker, Israel. This year’s meeting is embedded in a small international meeting from Dec 12th-14th on epilepsy genetics with the primary aim of bringing together researchers from Israel and Palestine. As last year, we would like to extend the invitation for this year’s Young Researchers Meeting in Epileptology to all young scientists involved in the field. Don’t forget to bring water and sunscreen; we’re going to the Negev Desert. Continue reading →

Share or be shared. During the last two weeks, the RES consortium has approved a new data sharing policy that will allow us to work with increased transparency and accountability within our upcoming projects. This new data sharing policy is a consequent extension of the previous protocols we had in earlier consortia – with one major difference. This time, it’s in writing. While we are getting ready to tackle the large dataset on epileptic encephalopathies released by the Sanger Institute, we took a moment to talk about how things should be running.

London calling. In the epilepsy field, there are annual and bi-annual meetings that are worth attending. One of these meetings is the 10thEuropean Congress of Epileptology (ECE), which will be held from September 30th to October 4th, 2012 in London. With Nobel Lecture Series, entertaining debates on controversial issues and interactive sessions with a “clubroom atmosphere”, the organizers will try out a new format for the European epilepsy meeting. Let’s give you a brief overview what this congress will hold for scientists interested in epilepsy genetics. Continue reading →

1000 exomes. The EuroEPINOMICS consortium will host its first data analysis meeting at the Luxembourg Centre for System Biomedicine from July 5th to July 7th, 2012, to discuss the results from the high-throughput genomic platforms in the CoGIE, RES, EpiGENet and Epiglia consortia. We will present the first results of the four EuroEPINOMICS programs generated by high-throughput genomic technologies and discuss the overall direction of genetic analysis for the next years, which should soon encompass the proverbial 1000 exomes. In preparation, let’s revisit high-throughput epilepsy genomics. Continue reading →